Research projects
Hitherto JEMU supports 18 research projects that are initiated by research teams from both RMCA and/or RBINS in collaboration of with other Belgian and/or foreign partners: There are two types of projects:
- flagship projects provide funding for new or ongoing studies that substantially contribute to the scientific valorisation of the collections of RMCA and RBINS;
- pilot projects provide support to scientists of RBINS and RMCA in order to carry out pilot research on a specific systematic problem.
Please find hereunder a sortable table of all supported projects with access to a brief description of their goal, organisation and current status:
| Acronym | Title | Category | Coordinator | Project status | JEMU partner | Image |
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| BarCoVer | DNA barcoding of selected Congolese vertebrates | Flagship project | Erik Verheyen (RBINS) | Completed, paper in preparation | JEMU team |
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| BC42W | Barcodes for two winged insects: a support project for barcoding of Diptera of medical, veterinary, agricultural and biodiversity concern | Flagship project | Marc De Meyer (RMCA) | Final stage: publications in preparation | JEMU team |
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| Mamfage | Morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis in the genus <i>Eudasychyra</i> Möschler, 1887 | Pilot project | Ugo Dall’Asta (RMCA) | Almost completed | Zoltán T. Nagy, Floris C. Breman |
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| GALCAR | Investigating species boundaries of carabid beetles of Galapagos by DNA barcoding | Pilot project | Frederik Hendrickx (RBINS) | Almost completed | Jeroen Van Houdt, Floris C. Breman |
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| Dag | Diversity of the Anoplotermes-group: an integrative approach | Pilot project | Maurice Leponce (RBINS) and Thomas Bourguignon (ULB) | Almost completed: publication in preparation | Zoltán T. Nagy, Gontran Sonet |
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| DemoTroRo | Barcoding 2 years of tropical rodent life: ecology, demography and population history of two rodent genera <i>Praomys and Hylomyscus</i> | Pilot project | Erik Verheyen (RBINS), Jan Kennis (University of Antwerp), Herwig Leirs (University of Antwerp) | Almost completed: publication in preparation | Zoltán T. Nagy, Gontran Sonet |
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| Eces_pseu | Evolution and chemo-ecology in sawflies: biosynthesis of defensive terpenoids in Pseudodineura larvae | Pilot project | Jean-Luc Boevé (RBINS) | Completed | Zoltán T. Nagy, Gontran Sonet |
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| Barfly | Optimization of DNA barcodes for fruit flies | Pilot project | Massimiliano Virgilio (RMCA/RBINS) | Completed | Jeroen Van Houdt, Floris C. Breman |
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| Barcolys | Testing two barcoding markers in the Antarctic Lysianassoidea (Amphipoda: Crustacea) | Pilot project | Patrick Martin & Charlotte Havermans (RBINS) | Completed | Zoltán T. Nagy, Gontran Sonet |
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| Bapam (Pardosa) | DNA-Barcoding of Pardosa injucunda in the MRAC collections (Araneae) | Pilot project | Rudy Jocqué (RMCA) | Completed | Jeroen Van Houdt, Floris C. Breman |
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| Lithocolletinae | Phylogenetic relationships within the subfamily Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae) in the Afrotropical region | Pilot project | Jurate De Prins (RMCA) | Completed | Jeroen Van Houdt, Floris C. Breman |
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| Barmar | Barcoding of Malagasy reptiles | Pilot project | Zoltán T. Nagy (RBINS) | Completed | Zoltán T. Nagy, Gontran Sonet |
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| Paratroph | Barcoding and phylogeny of Lake Tanganyika cichlid parasites: Monogenea and Copepoda on Tropheini as a case study | Pilot project | Jos Snoeks (RMCA) | Completed | Jeroen Van Houdt, Floris C. Breman | |
| Andant | Applicability of DNA barcodes for an effective assessment of the diversity of ant communities in the Ecuadorian Andes | Pilot project | Maurice Leponce (RBINS) | Completed | Zoltán T. Nagy, Gontran Sonet |
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| Gybar | DNA- barcoding in the Gyratrix hermaphroditus species-complex: a case study on European populations | Pilot project | Thierry Backeljau (RBINS) | In progress | Kurt Jordaens, Floris C. Breman |
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| DBCLTC | DNA barcoding of Lake Tanganyika cichlids | Pilot project | Jos Snoeks (RMCA) | Paper in preparation | Floris C. Breman, Jeroen Van Houdt |
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| Barpan | Exploratory study to obtain DNA barcodes from museum specimens of great apes | Pilot project | Emmanuel Gilissen (RMCA) | Paused | Jeroen Van Houdt, Gontran Sonet |
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| Ostratool | Developing molecular tools for ostracods (Crustacea) from museum collections and lake sediments | Pilot project | Isa Schön & Koen Martens (RBINS) | Paused | Zoltán T. Nagy, Gontran Sonet |
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